privet

English

privet Ligustrum sinense

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

Unknown origin, but possibly connected to prime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪv.ɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪvɪt

Noun

privet (countable and uncountable, plural privets)

1. Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur‎^[1]:

     Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.

Derived terms

• Amur privet, Amur River privet (Ligustrum amurense)
• California privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium)
• Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense)
• common privet, Cheyenne privet (Ligustrum vulgare)
• Egyptian privet (Lawsonia inermis)
• European privet (Ligustrum vulgare)
• evergreen privet (Rhamnus alaternus)
• glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum)
• ibolium privet, ibota privet (Ligustrum ibolium)
• Japanese privet (Ligustrum lucidum and Ligustrum japonicum)
• mock privet (Phillyrea spp.)
• oval-leaved privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium)
• pipe privet (Philadelphus coronarius)
• privet hawk moth
• swampprivet
• waxleaf privet (Ligustrum japonicum)
• wild privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

Translations

Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum

• Albanian: voshtër (sq) f, ligustër (sq) f
• Armenian: սրնգենի (hy) (srngeni), կիպրոս (kipros)
• Bulgarian: птиче грозде (ptiče grozde)
• Catalan: troana f, olivereta f (Ligustrum vulgare)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女貞／女贞 (zh) (nǚzhēn)

• Czech: ptačí zob m
• Dutch: liguster (nl)
• Finnish: likusteri (fi)
• French: troène (fr) m
• Galician: aligustre m
• German: Liguster (de) m, Rainweide f
• Greek: λιγούστρο (el) n (ligoústro)
• Hungarian: fagyal (hu)
• Irish: pribhéad m
• Italian: ligustro (it) m
• Japanese: イボタノキ (ibotanoki)
• Latin: ligustrum n
• Maori: hangehange, hengahenga, pāpā (mi), pāhengahenga, pāpāhenga, whangewhange, piriweti
• Polish: ligustr (pl) m
• Portuguese: alfeneiro m
• Romanian: lemn-câinesc (ro) n
• Romansch: liguster m
• Russian: бирючи́на (ru) f (birjučína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀лина f, зи̏молез m, лигу̀струм m

  Roman: kàlina (sh) f, zȉmolez (sh) m, ligùstrum (sh) m

• Spanish: alheña (es) f, aligustre (es) m, ligustro m
• Turkish: kurtbağrı (tr)
• Welsh: yswydden f, coeden brifet f

Etymology 2

From Russian приве́т (privét, “hello, hi”).

Interjection

privet

1. (informal) Hello, hi.

Translations

hello — see hello

Latin

Verb

prīvet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of prīvō